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Spotify founder Daniel Ek explains why he doesn’t worry about competition from Google and Apple In this interview from 2015, Daniel Ek is asked how Spotify will compete against tech giants like Google and Apple who recently entered the music space. He responds: “Apple and Google do this and... show more
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Sure, Spotify doesn't worry about Apple. They just stay focused. That's why their company met with the EU commission 65 times to aid them in giving punitive fines to Apple.
He should be worried because YouTube music is a real threat
Fair enough but this philosophy does seem to have served Spotify well. At the time of this interview, Spotify was valued at $8B. Today their market cap is north of $60B
Still waiting on hifi or lossless or something high-quality… switched to Apple Music even though Spotify is objectively better in everything else BESIDES audio quality.
So when do we get lossless, higher quality and Dolby Atmos? All of which Apple Music has right this second.
It would be cool if they went back to just focusing on music. The podcast push has degraded the UX for music
Then where is the lossless audio option that all others have at the same price point, that’s the only thing keeping me from moving to Spotify.
But he literally does. He filed DMA complaints against Apple.
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